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Hydraulically. now with no hydraulics on the left side, the slats retract back into the wing. >> which means he has less lift on that side than he had on the opposite side, so it wants to roll. >> an eyewitness manages to snap a photo of the plane rolling on to its side with its left wing pointing straight down to the ground. what happens next seals the fate of flight 191. >> pilots are trained to handle engine failures, and they did what their training taught them to do. they reduced their air speed. >> but when they did that, they no longer had air flow across the flight controls. >> they ju...

Luckily later adopted. finally in florida, a new ocean adventure is making it possible to live out your superhero dreams. check that out. visitors of the florida keys can take an amazing ride by strapping a jetpack apparatus that uses seawater to keep them propelled in the air. flight controls allow participants to take off, tour, hover, land, walk on water, whatever you want. now for a look at the national weather, we turn to nbc meteorologist bill karins with the weather forecast. how do they do that? >> i wonder how difficult it is. it looks fun. it looks pretty easy. >> where's the bra...

Special agents with homeland security are cleaning house. or maybe i should say the skies. smugglers are using commercial flights to transport drugs along with other forms of contraband into the u.s. agents work round-the-clock conducting intense cargo inspections and are screening airline employees who are often accomplices. deborah feyerick pull back the layers to see how the cartels use the system to smuggle in their drugs. >> reporter: it's in crew seats, food carts, control panels, toilets. drug traffickers using commercial planes to smuggle hundreds of millions of dollars of narcotics in...

The problem affecting airports around the country, drug cartels allegedly using commercial planes to smuggle narcotics. we are joined with a cnn exclusive. what have you learned, deb? >> reporter: wolf, this is the ultimate inside job, a sophisticated internal conspiracy timed perfectly. drugs come in, money goes out, often in the time it takes to turn a plane around between flights. an alleged drug trafficker is set to go on trial accused of smuggling more than $300 million worth of narcotics into the u.s. here's how he did it. it's in seats, food carts, toilets. drug traffickers smuggling hu...

The time, thankfully, we've not had reporting of the confirmed fatalities here. >> right. we did speak to some officials earlier that they are presuming that the pilot himself was killed. >> right. >> again, the report we have, one person is unaccounted for, but when i spoke with the mayor, he couldn't say whether that person unaccounted for was the pilot or was the person unaccounted for was an office worker, but the workday was well under way. mark rosencourt joins me on the phone now. we understand the ntsb, the national transportation safety board, is sending a team of investigators now to...